Quotes About Purple

Quotes About Purple

Quotes About the Color Purple

Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red,  Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme. - Derek Jarman

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Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.

Derek Jarmen, English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author, 1942–1994

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme. - Derek Jarmen   #color #quotes

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The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures

James Elkins, American art professor and author, b. 1955

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Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

Regina Brett, journalist and author, b. 1956

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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

H. G. Bissinger, American pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author, b. 1954

“Don’t order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don’t know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.” - George Bernard Shaw

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Don’t order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don’t know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

George Bernard Shaw, Irish born playwright who lived most of his life in London, England, 1856-1950

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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Alice Walker, American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist, b. 1944

I still have a lot of the stories I  wrote in high school. Hand wrote ... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a  fact we should probably be forever thankful for. - Shiloh Walker

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I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.

Shiloh Walker, American author

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Kate Smith
Kate Smith is an optimistic, expressive, artist, designer, writer and color fanatic. With her warm and witty style, Kate teaches you to clearly see, understand and be inspired by color. Then she guides you step-by-step to develop your own unique color sense-ability and achieve results you never dreamed possible.
  • Michele muroshimmons says:

    I was so surprised not to see the quote in the color purple or the image in the color purple just saying .. we belong to the purple people eater a club everything is purple from your top to bra to underwear to socks etc.

    • Kate Smith says:

      I’ll have to see about adding a quote about purple people eaters. 🙂

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